how to study

alright so i never really studied thru high school and now im going into my second semester of my freshman year. i learned from last semster that i need to learn to study, but i dont know how... can anybody help?

My physics professor recommended reading the material before it is lectured in class. It works. This method allows you to ask questions if you didn't get something during your reading. Also, annotate

I'm definitely gonna try this out for my chemistry class this quarter

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i found that if i read my books before lecture then i understand the lecture better. Also, if you do work in groups, i find it nice to attempt the work ahead of time so that you can either know what you need help with and/or help the other members of the group out. Teaching something is a great way to study/learn.

Learning information for the first time for yourself (not having someone teach it to you) tends to make you learn it better. Just outline the powerpoint or chapter before lecture, and you'd be surprised how much you know. For AP Bio in high school my teacher made us outline every chapter of the book (Campbells Biology) over the summer. I had no idea what I was writing about, but was actually surprised how much I learned when we went over it in class.

i am in the same boat on that one except that i had to indure broken english from a crazy chinese lady

This was one of the main reasons I left Purdue; I could not understand any of my professors. They were not hired to teach students, they were hired to bring the university prestige with their research.

I remember in Calc II blatantly telling my professor in front of 200 students that it sounded like he had a cheeseburger in his mouth.

I never went to a single Calc I, II, chem, or physics lecture after the first week while I attended Purdue my freshman year. I would dedicate that 50mins to reading the book.

I had a 3.52 when I transferred down to UE, so I guess I did alright. I love this school; teachers here are paid to teach, and they all speak perfect fluent English. In fact, about 80% were UE undergrads at one time.

Do your homework even if it isn't required. In fact, you should do more than you are asked.

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This was one of the main reasons I left Purdue; I could not understand any of my professors. They were not hired to teach students, they were hired to bring the university prestige with their research.

lol this is true

I only register classes with instructors whose name is related to English. That, or I read their profiles at ratemyprofessors.com and go from there.

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Learning information for the first time for yourself (not having someone teach it to you) tends to make you learn it better. Just outline the powerpoint or chapter before lecture, and you'd be surprised how much you know. For AP Bio in high school my teacher made us outline every chapter of the book (Campbells Biology) over the summer. I had no idea what I was writing about, but was actually surprised how much I learned when we went over it in class.

From what I've learned, it takes about 3-4 hours for each lecture to learn the material.

What program did you use to make that outline? It looks very professional and I'm interested in doing that for some calc classes because I find rewriting notes to be extremely useful for both studying and looking back for final exam review.

I've found that making a study sheet helps me a lot. I do it by going through whatever material the test is on and writing down the stuff i don' have down pat. Then, I focus on studying/memorizing everything I wrote down. Given a couple days, as long as I didn't blow anything off, I've down very well on my tests.

Take notes with a pen/pencil and paper. You write down the information, read it or hear it being told to you. Do not use laptops to take notes, because there is 100% chance of you wandering off on the internet to search for useless information. This helps me out a lot, do not need to study as much. But when i do study, I just sit down, turn on music or the tv for background noise and read the notes over and over.